Wow - ten past midnight and still awake - we've just been stargazing with a Sherpa!
At 21.30 our stargazing trip started with the best planetarium show ever (just a snapshot of what we hope to see more of tomorrow) to get us used to what we would hopefully see. Then a bus journey out to the runway of the Mt Cook airstrip.
Southern Cross, Orion and his dog, Pointers, Large and Small Magellanic Cluster galaxies, globular clusters, the jewellery box, a nebula which is actually one of the 'stars' of Orion, shooting stars, a satellite, and the Milky Way like I've never seen it before.
wow wow wow wow wow - made us feel very small!
And our driver on the way there was a Sherpa who has been to the top of Everest, got stuck on Mt Cook and survived 3 days and was friends with Edmund Hillary. We opted for keeping quiet about our 'trial' climbing weekend in Wales!
Gotta go - Martyn has actually set an alarm for tomorrow morning! Check out is at 10am.....but oh dear we have to be doing next activity at 09.30........night night
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